I have an HP Pavillion g6 Notebook PC that came pre-installed with Windows 8. I didn't particularly like it and ended up installing the latest version of Gnome on it instead. Since then, whenever I ...

I have a website, recently due to some network issue, Most of my customers are reporting slow loading time of my website.
When I reported this to my DataCenter, they are asking me to send the ping / ...

I cannot boot Ubuntu from my macbook. I have tried the official Ubuntu walkthrough for creating a USB boot stick (located here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx ) ...

I am using SSH tunnels launched via autossh at boot on a device installed at remote locations. Up to now everything was working fine but yesterday the connection partly went down and autossh wouldn't ...

I have a problem with the keyboard of my laptop which doesn't work properly anymore. However I have full control of the laptop via ssh. The problem is that I use a self encrypting disk (Samsung 840 ...

It appears that language variable is missing after our recent update to our Linux servers. We are running Redhat 5 on them. Is there anyway update can remove variables? The env output shows nothing ...

Some weeks ago, I've downloaded unetbootin both Windows and Linux versions to make a startup Ubuntu USB. I was going to use it to rescue my damaged Ubuntu partition. Tried the Linux version but didn't ...

I'm having a little problem with my USB stick. There are files and folders on the USB stick I can see and manipulate on my Linux machine (Fedora 20) but some of those files and folders appear nowhere ...

My linux system is trashing occassionally. I have 4 GB of ram which is good even for Windows 8. All in all I have good specs. But occasionally the HDD light in the CPU is on for a long time and at the ...

TLDR version
Can I install Linux by booting the Live CD and then doing a dd if=/ of=/dev/hda?
Can I somehow install Linux by copying files off of the installing ISO directly onto the harddisk drive?
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I have two computers that spontaneously shut down and rebooted (this happened more than once), both are identical hardware and were installed from the same image (CentOS 5). They are controlling some ...

I've got a Debian 7 linux machine and a TP-link MR3020 router attached to it via ethernet cable at eth0 interface, working in WISP mode meant to make it a client rather than an access point:
I also ...

I'm using Sabayon GNU/Linux with Mate-Desktop. I have my computer set up for multiple users so my girlfriend and the kids can use it too.
~ $ uname -a
Linux 3.9.0-sabayon #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 07:53:45 ...

I'm very new to *nix operating systems, and I'm having some trouble which I believe is because of misconfiguration of the iptables firewall.
My server has SSH running on port 22, and server software ...

We have a system that's been a bit sluggish. top reports that console-kit-daemon takes anywhere from 18-30% CPU and about 50% memory. There are only two users logged in, one on X and one via ssh.
Any ...

I just installed encfs from source on a synology disk-station (DSM 4.1) and it seems to work fine. But when I try to unmount my encfs directory via fusermount -u I get the error message:
fusermount ...

I have a problem with a server that is shutting down for some unknown reason. I check the logs each time it happens and cannot find anything of particular interest which would suggest why its going ...

I am just testing an rsnapshot installation on my laptop which should backup to a NAS mounted via nfs on my laptop.
On one test rsnapshot died with a cp -al problem (i.e. a problem with hard links) ...

I'm running debian wheezy ( testing ) and after some upgrades my gnome 3 is broken. It's not exactly broken, but it's completey different. Almost like it's no longer actually gnome 3; most of the UI ...

From time to time Linux and Unix users faced with various network problems. Many of these problems are presented here and at some others troubleshooting forums, but the are very concrete and contains ...

my linux version is: Fedora 17
I installed Netbeans IDE 7.1.2 and it was working fine, but now, when I try to open it, nothing happens after double clicking on it.
I think updating the kernel may be ...

I'm trying to brush up my skills on AIX. I have an ancient RS/6000 43P-133 which I'm trying to resurrect before investing in anything more sophisticated. I used to do automation and scripting on AIX ...